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College Upper (15-16)

Histogram Sorting Using Cooperative Learningpart of CAUSE Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples Intended as an early lesson in an introductory statistics course, this lesson uses cooperative learning methods to introduce distributions. Students develop awareness of the different versions of particular shapes (e.g., different types of skewed distributions, or different types of normal distributions), and that there is a difference between models (normal, uniform) and characteristics (skewness, symmetry, etc.).

Discovering Economic Preconceptions using Clickerspart of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples Student preconceptions in the economics classroom are an under-appreciated element of teaching. Here we describe how clickers can easily be used to determine student preconceptions and thus inform the instructor on the information that students bring to the classroom.

Clickers As an Alternative to Scantronspart of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples Clickers can be used to replace Scantron forms for exams. This can save considerable time and effort when it comes to recording scores.

Using Clickers to Inductively Construct Economic Conceptspart of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples This technique reverses the usual order of definitions and examples used in class to one of presenting an example or examples first and then having students "discover" the concept when asked with carefully constructed clicker questions.

Using Clickers to Generate Supply and Demand Curvespart of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples Use the clickers to generate data for demand and supply curves by asking students to give numerical values for their maximum willingness to pay for something and their minimum willingness to accept for something. Use the data generated to graph both the demand and supply curves.

Greenhouse Gas in a Bottle Demonstrationpart of CLEAN:CLEAN Network:Teaching Materials This activity is part of the community collection of teaching materials on climate and energy topics. These materials were submitted by faculty as part of the CLEAN Climate Workshop, held in June, 2011 and are not ...